The public city: essays in honour of Paul Mees

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Notes

1. Indeed, to my mind, the Toronto region is not sufficiently dense, nor does it have its density appropriately placed, to act as a model for the density-as-destiny argument. At the same time, neither does its public transit system sufficiently conform to the network principles that Mees laid out, particularly in the suburban municipalities where more than half the population lives. So Toronto actually fails on both counts. But as Mees would argue, such things are relative: there is always some place that is even worse off.